Probably this was the case at _Grantham_, where the octagonal turrets finish in a spirelet, at _Leake_, at _Fishtoft_, at _Swineshead_, at _Langtoft_, at _Helpringham_, _Quadring_, and at _Tattershall_, though in the last-named the turret-stair begins from the stone rood-loft. Leverington Church (Cambs) has a rood-loft turret crowned with a spirelet at the south-east angle of the nave, which forms a sancte-bell cot and still retains its bell. At _Sleaford_ there are two rood-loft stairs in the north and south piers of the chancel arch, and running up with the northern one is a separate staircase leading on to the aisle roof. No rood-loft turrets, as far as I have been able to ascertain, date back previous to the thirteenth century. Curiously, at St. Antony in Kirrier, Cornwall, there is only an _external_ doorway to the rood-loft staircase. Another convenient position for the sancte-bell cot was at the apex of the eastern gable of the nave, and the earliest example of this form seems to be a Norman one at Bledington Church in Gloucestershire. In _Tallington Church_ there still hangs a bell (probably original) in this position; and Seamer Church, near Scarborough, still possesses both bell and gable sancte-bell cot. At _Welbourn_ is a pretty hanging bell cot corbelled out beneath an excellent gable cross. _Tydd St. Mary’s_ is another instance of both features, while _Gedney_, _Claypole_, _Winthorpe_, _Boston_, _Aslackby_, _Sibsey_, and _Spalding_ have the gable bell cot alone. _Butterwick_ has a gable bell cot as well as a rood-loft turret (of good circular brickwork), as have also _Benington_ and _Wrangle_. _Holbeach_ has had two gable sancte-bell cots, the first dating from 1453; this was replaced at a remarkably late date—that of the Laudian revival, I suppose, in 1629. As well as the sancte-bells which have been already mentioned, at _Aslackby_ is a small bell (unhung in the tower), dated 1611, which is thought to be the sanctus-bell. _St. Mary’s, Sutterton_, is a small bell of thirteenth-century date, inscribed in Lombardic lettering, “Symon de Hotfelde me fecit.” _St. Peter and St. Paul, Algarkirk_, has also probably a sancte-bell, as well as _Bicker_, _Ingoldmells_, _East Halton_, _Sutterton_, _Hacconby_, _Great Hale_, and _North Witham_. To return to the rood-loft: on it (or above it) would stand the great rood, often with the ends of the cross finished with heads or emblems of the Four Evangelists. Occasionally the crucifix would be sustained partly by chains from the roof, as can be seen abroad—_e.g._ at Louvain—to this day. In the crown of the chancel arch of _Boston Parish Church_ are the sockets for the two chains to support the rood, and at _Billinghay_ a central mark for a hook. On either side of the rood would be an image of St. Mary the Virgin and St. John the Evangelist.[106]